Dope! #1 most subscribed makeup artist guru on YouTube, Michelle Phan talks about 1040 in a recent vlog:
The official world premiere of 1040 is going down tomorrow night at opening night of the City of the Angels Film Festival!!! You can still purchase tix online, but sale ends soon! http://caff.eventbrite.com
Word. I’m seeing it with my very own eyes here in Asia…
FAQ: What is “1040″? Well, 1040, the film, is a documentary about Christianity in Asia that I worked on last year. “1040″ is derived from the “10/40 Window,” a term used to describe the most unevangelized area of the world (10 and 40 degrees North Latitude on the eastern hemisphere). Read the synopsis for 1040 here.
Ok, one week ’til the official world premiere of 1040! Yes, yes. It’s gonna be off the hook. Opening night at City of the Angels. Get your tickets online! Yet another event in LA that I can’t believe I’m missing out on.
All I have to say is that I can’t believe I’m missing this!!! It’s gonna be PK’s last year hosting… there are A LOT of people going… and of course, the talent! OMG, THE TALENT.
Very excited for Asians and Asian Americans in entertainment… God is on it. Trust.
Btw, if you’re wondering about my New Year’s resolution about blogging daily… well… obviously, that hasn’t been happening. I have very inconsistent Internet access here in Asia (been traveling a lot more than I planned and I don’t have a laptop). Anyway, I will seriously blog about some of the things that I’ve experienced here when I have more time :]
As I’ve been living my own 1040 adventure, I actually got to see Mr. Jin the MC the other night! As we were eating dumplings, I had flashbacks to “Yum Dom Cha”… oh man, how things have changed! It was cool… we both talked about how we unexpectedly ended up in HK. Why I’m in HK? I’ll save that for another blog…
Here’s a lil’ web clip of Jin sharing a bit about his relationship with God:
That’s right. Another spexy Brother reppin’ it. Check him out: ayojin.com
Ok, so I recently started using this made up word “SPEXY” ever since I saw it in a comment to Disgrasian.com’s Babewatch article on JMA. Spexy = spiritual + sexy. Puahaha. I love it.
Anyway, I think many of you would agree. Van Ness Wu is pretty spexy.
The world premiere is going down on March 12, 2010 at opening night of the City of the Angels Film Festival: http://1040movie.com/1040-world-premiere
I thought I was gonna be back for the premiere, but it seems that I’m in the process of my own 1040 adventure! For now, I’ll just say that God has been so good… He’s totally moving in Asia… and I can’t wait to share “1040 Part 2 Grace Su Edition” with y’all. Haha.
Anyway, here’s the teaser for 1040:
I hope those of you who watch it will get something out of it, whether you’re Christian or not! Be Blessed :]
Upon arriving in HK the other night, the AliveNotDead guys hooked it up with a ticket to go to the red carpet premiere of the new Jackie Chan and Wang Lee Hom flick, Little Big Soldier. Well, I had no plans, so why not?
My movie mates! The gorgeous Grace Huang and Etchy.
Lin Peng, Director Ding Sheng, and Steve Yoo (aka Yoo Seung-Jun):
The crowd was a lil’ bit too crazy. I don’t know why there was an ambulance. Maybe cuz’ somebody had a heart attack upon hearing Wang Lee Hom was in the house (actually, I don’t know if he was there or not, but there were some WLH fanatics in the house for sure).
How was the movie? I thought it was OK. Jackie Chan is always entertaining and I thought it was cool that he wrote the story, but overall, I thought it dragged a bit, became very predictable at times, and didn’t have much of a payoff. The character development wasn’t totally there, cuz’ by the end, I wasn’t invested enough in the characters to care about their transformations. Despite that, I did laugh a fair amount here and there (although I happened to laugh at things that nobody else laughed at… I guess my sense of humor is totally different from the HK audience).
So this is the hottest flick in Taiwan right now… MONGA. I’d been hearing about it from my relatives and from watching TV, and then a friend who knows the director wanted to go see it… so we watched it last night! And it was quite good. I have to honestly say I wasn’t really expecting too much based on Taiwanese films I’d seen before (which actually isn’t very much), but this one was was very well made, has a great story, and the actors are pretty hot. Puahaha. Takeshi Kaneshiro, watch out!
Random tidbits: The whole entire time, I kept thinking that one of the main characters, “Monk” (Ethan Ruan) looked so much like Kev Nish from FM! And then “Mosquito” (Mark Chao) kinda looked like Bruce Lee… haha.
I don’t know too much about the back story of this film and right now there’s no IMDB page for it either… hmm. Well, in short, it’s about a place called Monga, which according to my uncle, baaack in the day was a port where many mainlanders entered Taiwan from. Ok, if you don’t like spoilers, well here’s your SPOILER ALERT… In this film, the story takes place in the ’70s and ’80s and is about a group of friends, part of the Temple Front gang. The narrator of the story, Mosquito, is invited to be a part of the gang after a silly fight with members of another gang, the Back Alley. Mosquito has grown up without a father and has never had any real friends, so after Monk and the others take him under their wing, he fully embraces the new lifestyle and there’s no turning back. The story has a number of heart-wrenching twists and while it is a drama, there’s also a lot of humor which I loved. In the end, it all comes down to the characters trying to balance the harsh realities of a violent gangster life with the honor of friendship and brotherhood.
I have no idea when the film will be hitting the U.S., but I hope it will! Here’s the website, but it’s all in Chinese: mongathemovie.com
